• Karen Armstrong, Introduction to A History of God, Ballantine Books, 1993.


• The Center for Progressive Christianity promotes "an understanding of Christian practice and teaching that leads to a greater concern for the way people treat each other than for the way people express their beliefs, the acceptance of all people, and a respect for other religious traditions."
  
  
• The Polydox Institute - "a website is dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Alvin J. Reines, philosopher of religion and one of Reform Judaism's most creative thinkers. It contains his life work on 'Polydoxy,' a term he coined to describe the nature and function of liberal religion."
  
  
• Robert W. Funk. (1998). The Coming Radical Reformation: Twenty-one Theses. Fourth R, Volume 11/4, July/August.
  
  
  • A must-read manifesto by the founder of the Jesus Seminar!
    
    
• John Shelby Spong. (1998). A Call for a New Reformation. Fourth R. Volume 11/4, July/August.
  
  
  • Another provocative article by the retired Episcopal bishop of Newark, author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Why Christianity Must Change or Die, and Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality.
    
    
• Walter Kaufmann. (1959). "The Faith of a Heretic," Harper's Magazine, February.
  
  
  • Kaufmann was professor of philosophy at Princeton University and the primary translator into English of the works of Nietzsche.  His books on religion were Critique of Religion and Philosophy (1979) and The Faith of a Heretic (1959).  Also interesting and relevant is his Without Guilt and Justice: From Decidophobia to Autonomy (1973).
    
    
• Bertrand Russell. (1930). "Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?" and "Why I am Not a Christian."
  
  
• Mark Twain. (1909). "Letters from the Earth"
  
  
• Robert Ingersoll. (1896). "Why I am an Agnostic."
  
  
• The Secular Web

Healing Religion's Harm
Gary Pence, Ph.D.

Revised: April 2, 2014.